16 January 2015
This week’s homework is creative homework. Apologies that this homework has been posted later than normal – because of this, it is not expected to be handed in until Thursday 22 January.
Do all the things in my kitchen cupboards weigh the same?
This homework is creative but is reinforcing some learning that has happened in Maths. After looking at measuring mass (weight) this week, it will be interesting for the children to look in their kitchen cupboards and look at the weights of different products. This could be presented in a variety of ways:
- photos with labels showing mass
- drawings with labels showing mass
- comparisons of different products and their masses
- pictures / photos of products that do weigh the same
- photos of children cooking something and weighing the ingredients
16 January 2015
This week’s homework is creative and is due on Wednesday 21 January.
What can you make out of the rubbish (recycling) you produce in your home?
Look around the house at the things you’re throwing away and think about what you could make out of them. The old man made a forest out of tin – think about useful, attractive and magical things you could make.
This homework is creative so you could decide to actually make an item and take a picture or bring it into school or you might want to design something in your homework book (especially if you’ve got an idea as big as the forest the old man made).
16 January 2015
The homeworks this week are Creative and Practice Makes Perfect.
The Practice Makes Perfect homework is another Mathletics one. They have a couple of different activities to do based on the learning we’ve done in class.
The Creative homework is to show examples of forces in action. We have been learning this in class so your child should have lots of ideas. They could find photographs which show forces in action or draw a diagram which shows forces in action. Examples could be a toy car rolling down a ramp, a person sitting on a chair, a floating boat, a tug of war contest. Children could also show whether forces are balanced or unbalanced. An example of balanced forces is shown below. In this example, the two men are pulling in opposite directions with the same force. This means that there is no movement.
To find out more about forces, follow the link:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/topics/znmmn39
09 January 2015
This week’s homework is talk time.
Why is it good to be you? What is your talent?
Make sure your child is able to talk about this on Wednesday 14 January.
If you would like to share this talent with more people then sign up for “Moortown’s Got Talent” on Monday. Auditions will be held soon.
09 January 2015
The homeworks this week are Creative and Practice Makes Perfect.
The Practice Makes Perfect homework are two Mathletics activites linked to this week’s learning in class on negative numbers.
The Creative homework is I can investigate friction. We’ve been learning about forces in our topic lessons so this homework will build on this learning. Your child has to think of an investigation they can conduct which will compare friction created by surfaces or objects. They should explain what their investigation will test; their predictions; how they can ensure it is a fair test; and should communicate their findings.
We had a chat as a class and came up with a few ideas:
- Build a ramp and test how far a toy car will roll on different surfaces.
- One push skateboard tests on different surfaces.
- Test different types of shoe for friction on different surfaces.
- Make different sized parachutes and see which ones fall slowest (this measures the amount of air resistance).
- Push/blow different shaped toy boats or other floating objects to see which are affected most by water resistance.
12 December 2014
This week’s homework is practice makes perfect. Please make sure it is handed in by Wednesday 17 December.
The homework is maths and is making sure that the children recognise words in numbers and digits.
There won’t be any homework during the Christmas break but don’t forget about Mathletics and writing thank you letters to keep up those key skills.
Happy Christmas, everyone; thanks for your support this term.
12 December 2014
The homework this week is Practice Makes Perfect and is due in on Wednesday 17 December.
I understand and can write passive sentences.
Children have a sheet in their homework book which asks them to complete a passive sentence using a passive verb. To further challenge them, you could ask them to convert some of last week’s active sentences into passive sentences.
An example of each:
- Year 5 won the Cool Class Cup. (This is active – we know the ‘subject’ of the sentence – which is Year 5 – and what they did – they won the cup.)
- The Cool Class Cup was stolen. (This is passive – something was done to the cup, but we don’t know who by.)
12 December 2014
This week’s homework is Practice Makes Perfect and is due on Wednesday 17 December.
I can practise telling the time.
You have been assigned three activities on Mathletics, all to do with telling the time and days of the week. Have a go at these as many times as you want and, if you want to go on and do more, please do! We can then have a look at how we did and what we need to practise more in class. Don’t forget to use the question mark: if you’re not sure how to answer a question, click on the question mark and it will give you some help.
As a challenge, have a go at the test and see how you do then we can take it again later and see how much better we are.
05 December 2014
The Practice Makes Perfect homework this week is an English homework.
I can write active sentences with subjects and objects.
In English we’ve talked about sentences which have subjects and objects. In active sentences there is an active verb. The subject of the active verb does the action and the object has the action done to it.
For example: Stella broke the window.
In this sentence, Stella is the subject, broke is the verb and window is the object.
The children’s task is to complete some sentences when given either the object, subject or both. An extension is to write some active sentences without an object.
05 December 2014
The whole school homework this week is creative: children are invited to respond to something from either a cultural or spiritual perspective.
I can show what I know and think about something cultural.
We’d like children to present their responses about a recent book they’ve read, film they’ve watched, piece of art they’ve looked at, piece of music they’ve listened to – anything cultural in fact. We’re interested to read some sort of description (a summary, for example) and then your child’s opinions. This review might include pictures, an interview (your child could write a fictional script between himself/herself and the artist, for example), a letter (eg to or from a character, or perhaps even the author) – anything which might include your child’s responses!
However, your child might prefer to do the following:
I can show what I know about a festival.
Over the course of this term, some children in school will have celebrated a religious festival of some sort. This might have been
- the Muslim festival of Eid ul Adha, this year in October
- the Sikh and Hindu festival Diwali, also in October
- the Jewish festival of Hanukkah, coming up in December
- the Christian festival (of course, celebrated by many non-Christians, too) of Christmas
- the Chinese New Year festival which next year will be in February
There are lots of other festivals and celebrations which you and your child together might want to reflect on, from the anniversary of the crowning of Selassie (a festival which might be celebrated by Rastafarians) to the Winter Solstice (a Pagan festival). You can also research more festivals.
We invite children to respond to the sentence above – they might include a recount (like a diary entry), pictures, an interview (perhaps in a script). Your child might also choose to research a completely unknown festival, or they might even think about creating a brand new festival, one that everyone will celebrate.
Whether inspired culturally or spiritually, your child’s homework is due on Wednesday 10 December.